Girl Scouts Badge Workshops
2023-2024 Scout Workshops and Overnights will be announced soon!
2023 - 2024 Badge Workshops TBD
● Location: Your troop’s workshop will be scheduled at one of the program spaces at Longway Planetarium or at the Sloan Museum of Discovery in Flint's Cultural Center campus.
Registration Information
● The Leader is responsible for the payment and registration of participants.
● All scouts and adults must be registered and paid for prior to the program. Due to material preparation costs, no refunds will be given for absent participants.
● Leaders are responsible for obtaining badges from their local council office.
● We request that no siblings or infants accompany the participant.
If you have any questions, please call 810-237-3409.
PAST WORKSHOPS
Space Scientists Explorer - Overnight (SOLD OUT)
Date: 1/20/2023
Time: 6 p.m.-9 a.m.
Cost: $32/scouts; $16/adults
Location: Longway Planetarium
Space scientists are people who study outer space—what’s in the sky. In this badge, you can be a space scientist as you look at the sky and talk about what you see!
Register today!
Mechanical Engineering - Overnight
Date: 2/17/2023
Time: 6 p.m.-9 a.m.
Cost: $32/scouts; $16/adults
Location: Sloan Museum of Discovery
Get creative while designing a board game to play with your family and friends! Build a prototype of a rollercoaster car and send it down a hill. How far can you make the car go? Build a model car and experiment with ramp surfaces while collecting data and improving your design.
Register today.
Space Scientists Explorer - Workshop
Date: 3/18/2023
Time: 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Cost: $15/student; $15/adult
Location: Longway Planetarium
Space scientists are people who study outer space—what’s in the sky. In this badge, you can be a space scientist as you look at the sky and talk about what you see!
Register today!
Outdoor Art Maker - Overnight (Sold Out)
Date: 4/14/2023
Time: 6 p.m.-9 a.m.
Cost: $32/scouts; $16 adults
Location: Sloan Museum of Discovery
Explore the outdoors and use what you see and hear to make different kinds of art projects. See the colors of nature, hear the sounds of nature, and share your outdoor art. Look at nature like an artist and make your own outdoor art.
Register today!
Automotive Engineering - Workshop
Date: 11/5/2022
Time: 1-4 p.m.
Cost: $15
Location: Sloan Museum of Discovery
Get in gear and explore how automotive engineers plan, build, test, and improve vehicles. Then, engineer your own model of a vehicle to help people during an emergency! Learn about simple machines in vehicles and engineer a vehicle for safety based on criteria. Build a vehicle prototype, test and revise your prototype, and share your results.
Register today!
Senses - Overnight
Date: 11/11/2022
Time: 6 p.m.-9 a.m.
Cost: $32/scouts; $16 adults
Location: Sloan Museum of Discovery
Explore the world using your five senses! Test your visual memory by quickly looking at objects. How many will you remember? Listen to sound boxes, and see how many sounds you can identify correctly. Play a smelly game with your friends while blindfolded! Have fun with food, and do a taste test of different flavors. Using the sense of touch, explore various textures and surfaces during a guessing game.
Register today!
Household Elf - Workshop (SOLD OUT)
Date: 12/27/2022
Time: 1-4 p.m.
Cost: $15
Location: Sloan Museum of Discovery
Learn ways to save energy and water in your home and help save the planet! Discover ways to use less energy, learn the importance of conserving water, and mix your own safe and simple household cleaner.
Potter - Workshop (SOLD OUT)
Date: 1/7/2023
Time: 1-4 p.m.
Cost: $15
Location: Sloan Museum of Discovery
Explore art while working with your hands. Find inspiration from famous pottery pieces as you create your own works of art. Learn different techniques and even make your own clay.
Space Science Adventurer - Overnight (SOLD OUT)
Date: 1/20/2023
Time: 6 p.m.-9 a.m.
Cost: $32/scouts; $16/adults
Location: Longway Planetarium
Whether you’ve searched for shooting stars or found shapes in the clouds, you’ve probably already spent some time looking at the sky. Now’s your chance to see the sky in a new way—like a space scientist does!
Register today!
Mechanical Engineering - Overnight (SOLD OUT)
Date: 2/17/2023
Time: 6 p.m.-9 a.m.
Cost: $32/scouts; $16/adults
Location: Sloan Museum of Discovery
Bounce, fly, and race into the night. Brownies will explore springs, aerodynamics, and speed while designing leap bots, fling flyers, and a race car.
Register today!
Space Science Adventurer - Workshop (SOLD OUT)
Date: 3/18/2023
Time: 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Cost: $15
Location: Longway Planetarium
Whether you’ve searched for shooting stars or found shapes in the clouds, you’ve probably already spent some time looking at the sky. Now’s your chance to see the sky in a new way—like a space scientist does!
Register today!
Bugs - Overnight (Sold Out)
Date: 4/14/2023
Time: 6 p.m.-9 a.m.
Cost: $32/scouts; $16/adults
Location: Sloan Museum of Discovery
Are you ready to explore the wiggly, squiggly, crawling world of insects? Create a bug box, look at different types of bug homes, use magnifying glasses to look at our bugs and use their imagination to build a bug of their own to take home.
Register today!
Automotive Engineering - Workshop
Date: 11/5/2022
Time: 1-4 p.m.
Cost: $15
Location: Sloan Museum of Discovery
Take the wheel to design your dream car! Learn about women who have changed the automotive field and design a car out of this world car. Scouts will be able to learn the designing process and create a model car!
Register today!
Detective - Overnight
Date: 11/11/2022
Time: 6 p.m.-9 a.m.
Cost: $32/scouts; $16/adults
Location: Sloan Museum of Discovery
Grab your magnifying glasses and join us for a mystery filled evening. Practice the power of observation, break a code, and learn about fingerprints. Try out detective science and follow clues to solve a mystery.
Register today!
Playing in the Past - Workshop (Cancelled)
Date: 12/28/2022
Time: 1-4 p.m.
Cost: $15
Location: Sloan Museum of Discovery
Travel back in time to re-live history as a historical figure from the past. Get to know more about the period of time and design an accessory they wore. Explore daily life, chores, and games through hands-on activities.
Jeweler - Workshop
Date: 1/7/2023
Time: 1-4 p.m.
Cost: $15
Location: Sloan Museum of Discovery
Are you ready to learn tips and tricks on how to make a beautiful piece of jeweler? Create a bracelet or necklace using beads, metal, and everyday materials. Learn simple techniques to form beautiful pieces for both you and your friends!
Register today!
Space Science Investigator - Overnight
Date: 1/20/2023
Time: 6 p.m.-9 a.m.
Cost: $32/scouts; $16/adults
Location: Longway Planetarium
Learn about scale models of our solar system and about the Earth’s cycle around the Sun. Discover the beauty of the night sky and create a model constellation. Using your knowledge to create a model Mars Rover and a mural of what you learned to share with younger scouts.
Mechanical Engineering - Overnight
Date: 2/17/2023
Time: 6 p.m.-9 a.m.
Cost: $32/scouts; $16/adults
Location: Sloan Museum of Discovery
Design, Build, Test, Learn. Follows these steps as you create a crane, paddle boat, balloon car. How fast will your car go? How much weight can your crane lift? Is there a way to make your paddle boat turn? Explore how engineers think as they work through the process.
Register today!
Space Science Investigator - Workshop
Date: 3/18/2023
Time: 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Cost: $15
Location: Longway Planetarium
Learn about scale models of our solar system and about the Earth’s cycle around the Sun. Discover the beauty of the night sky and create a model constellation. Use your knowledge to create a model Mars Rover. Create a mural of what you learned to share with younger scouts.
Register today!
Flowers - Overnight (Sold Out)
Date: 4/14/2023
Time: 6 p.m.-9 a.m.
Cost: $32/scouts; $16/adults
Location: Sloan Museum of Discovery
Explore the wonderful world of flowers by planting a seed or bulb, experiment with a flower’s root system, make floral bath beads, create flower art, and design a beautiful bouquet.
Register today!
Special Agent - Overnight
Date: 11/11/2022
Time: 6 p.m.-9 a.m.
Cost: $32 scouts; $16 adults
Location: Sloan Museum of Discovery
Become special agents while exploring the world of forensics and espionage. Have a fingerprinting party, and identify different fingerprint types. Participate in an eyewitness challenge, and experiment with chromatography. Learn common “tells” to determine if someone is lying. Write and perform a short forensic-science crime drama skit with your fellow scouts.
Register today!
Space Science Researcher - Overnight
Date: 2/17/2023
Time: 6 p.m.-9 a.m.
Cost: $32 scouts; $16 adults
Location: Longway Planetarium
Calling all Cadettes! Are you ready to research the stars?! Study the colors of light and learn about “invisible light” coming from the sun. Learn how to use a telescope and create a way to help prevent light pollution. Spend time in our planetarium theater leaning about stars and the night sky.
Register today!
Night Owl - Overnight
Date: 3/10/2023
Time: 6 p.m.-9 a.m.
Cost: $32 scouts; $16 adults
Location: Longway Planetarium
The night sky has captured the human imagination since the dawn of time. Today's technologies it's easy to overlook the mystery and beauty of the night's skies. Join us in an overnight worth staying up for, with our own Planetarium Specialist. Scouts will have the chance to gaze at the stars, look at the planets, and watch a planetarium show in the theater. If weather permits, we will go outside and look at what is happening in the sky. This program does not complete all badge requirements.
Register today!
Space Science Research - Workshop (Cancelled)
Date: 3/25/2023
Time: 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Cost: $15
Location: Longway Planetarium
Calling all Cadettes! Are you ready to research the stars?! Study the colors of light and learn about “invisible light” coming from the sun. Learn how to use a telescope and create a way to help prevent light pollution. Spend time in our planetarium theater learning about stars and the night sky.
Register today!
Trees - Overnight (Sold Out)
Date: 4/14/2023
Time: 6 p.m.-9 a.m.
Cost: $32 scouts; $16 adults
Location: Longway Planetarium
Become a naturalist and get to the root of what trees are all about. Design a tree house, sketch your favorite tree and learn what kinds of plants or animals use your tree, create tree art, and learn about the logging industry in Michigan.
Register today!
Space Science Expert - Overnight
Date: 2/17/2023
Time: 6 p.m.-9 a.m.
Cost: $32 scouts; $16 adults
Location: Longway Planetarium
For most of human history, the planets and stars have only been tiny points of light, floating in a dark sky many millions—or even trillions—of miles away. People began by organizing the sky into constellations, cataloging the stars by brightness, and, then the invention of the telescope harnessed the power of light and expanded our view! Now, it’s your turn to explore light and discover what it teaches us about the Universe!
Register today!
Traveler - Overnight
Date: 3/10/2023
Time: 6 p.m.-9 a.m.
Cost: $32 scouts; $16 adults
Location: Longway Planetarium
Who is ready for a vacation? Create a vision board, itinerary, budget, and map. Plan out your dream vacation with all the stops along the way.
Register today!
Space Science Expert - Workshop (Cancelled)
Date: 3/25/2023
Time: 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Cost: $15
Location: Longway Planetarium
For most of human history, the planets and stars have only been tiny points of light, floating in a dark sky many millions—or even trillions—of miles away. People began by organizing the sky into constellations, cataloging the stars by brightness, and, then the invention of the telescope harnessed the power of light and expanded our view! Now, it’s your turn to explore light and discover what it teaches us about the Universe!
Register today!
Sky - Overnight (Sold Out)
Date: 4/14/2023
Time: 6 p.m.-9 a.m.
Cost: $32 scouts; $16 adults
Location: Longway Planetarium
Explore the astronomy behind planets, stars, and the solar system. Create a space exploration vehicle and explore the scientific principles of your design. Explore the causes and effects of light pollution. Make sky art to celebrate the wonders of the sky.
Register today!
Space Science Master - Overnight (CANCELLED)
Date: 2/17/2023
Time: 6 p.m-9 a.m.
Cost: $32 scouts; $16 adults
Location: Longway Planetarium
Scientists and engineers who work on NASA space science projects are 21st century explorers. You can explore, observe, design, and communicate what you discover—just like they do. Since space science encompasses the entire Universe, there are lots of topics that might pique your interest. Dive in and explore NASA and space science!
Register today!
Outdoor Art Master - Overnight
Date: 3/10/2023
Time: 6 p.m-9 a.m.
Cost: $32 scouts; $16 adults
Location: Longway Planetarium
Are you ready to turn the outdoors into art. Find inspiration from the colors, smells, and sounds of nature. Find music in nature and design artwork with nature in mind!
Register today!
Space Science Master - Workshop (Cancelled)
Date: 3/25/2023
Time: 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Cost: $15
Location: Longway Planetarium
Scientists and engineers who work on NASA space science projects are 21st century explorers. You can explore, observe, design, and communicate what you discover—just like they do. Since space science encompasses the entire Universe, there are lots of topics that might pique your interest. Dive in and explore NASA and space science!
Register today!